:LastChangedDate: $LastChangedDate$ :LastChangedRevision: $LastChangedRevision$ :LastChangedBy: $LastChangedBy$ .. _qa: Testing & QA ============ `Latest bundles`_ for the next release cycle are automatically built by our Gitlab CI for every commit in master. Beginning with 0.9.5, we have ported again the VPN service into the Bitmask client. Choose the following testing providers (beware that no guarantee about continuity of the accounts is made at this point): * For Encrypted Email, test against ``https://cdev.bitmask.net`` * For VPN, test against ``https://demo.bitmask.net`` .. _`Latest bundles`: https://0xacab.org/leap/bitmask-dev/-/jobs/artifacts/master/download?job=bitmask_latest_bundle Reporting bugs -------------- * Bug reports go into our `Issue Tracker`_. * `Here`_ is a very good read about what constitutes a `good bug report`_. * Have also a look at the :ref:`Known Issues ` page. .. _`Issue Tracker`: https://0xacab.org/leap/bitmask-dev/issues/ .. _`Here`: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html .. _`good bug report`: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html .. note:: Before including logs in a bug report, please read through them and *remove any personally-identifying information*! Logs -------------- Bitmask stores the logs in ``$HOME/.config/leap/bitmaskd.log``. You might want to remove the whole ``~/.config/leap`` folder when trying a new account, or when you stop using Bitmask. Tips for QA -------------------------------- If you want to give a hand testing the unreleased bundles, please follow the following tips: * Focus all your efforts, if possible, on whatever is *the* golden distro at the time of the release. This currently is: Ubuntu 17.04.x (zesty), 64bits, with Unity as the default desktop environment. It's very important to have a reference environment as bug-free as possible, before trying to solve issues that are present in other distributions or window managers. * Identify all issues that need help in the QA phase. You can do that going to the bug tracker, and filtering all the issues for a given release that are in the QA state. * If the issue is solved in your tests for this alpha release, please add a comment to the issue stating the results of your tests, and the platform and desktop environment in which your tests took place. But please do not change the QA status on the issue. We generally leave this role to the author of the original issue, or to the person playing the role of the release QA master. * Always test with a newly created account (specially relevant when testing email candidates) * Always test with the reference Mail User Agent (currently, Thunderbird, in whatever version is present in the reference distribution). * Remove also any thunderbird configuration, start a freshly configured account. * If you find a new bug, please make sure that it hasn't already been reported in the issue tracker. If you are absolutely certain that you have found a new bug, please attach a log of a new bitmask session, which should contain *only* the behaviour needed to reproduce the bug you are reporting. On a live image (xenial) ------------------------ Pasting the following line in a terminal will help you testing the latest bundle from inside a virtual machine running a **live image for xenial** (note that this is **not** an installation method!):: curl https://0xacab.org/leap/bitmask-dev/raw/master/docs/testing/latest-bundle-xenial | bash Providers with invalid certificates ----------------------------------- If you **really** need to test against a provider without a valid certificate, you can use the following flag. I assume you know what you are doing:: SKIP_TWISTED_SSL_CHECK=1 bitmask Thunderbird integration ----------------------- You can configure Thunderbird manually with the info that is shown in the "Configure a Mail Client" section, within the Mail pane in Bitmask. However, there is a Thunderbird extension that automates this configuration. Before configuring a Bitmask account in Thunderbird, make sure that you have Bitmask running and that you are logged in with an account that supports the mail service (mail.bitmask.net). These are the steps: 1. Run Bitmask, login with an account that suports encrypted email. 2. From within Thunderbird, install the `Bitmask Thunderbird Extension`_. 3. Enable the menu bar: Right Click in the top bar > Menu Bar 4. Create a Bitmask Account in Thunderbird: From the menubar, click on File > New > Bitmask Account 5. Fill in your name. This can be anything. 6. Fill in your username, in the form "username@provider" .. _`Bitmask Thunderbird Extension`: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/bitmask/